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Williams, part of a running back platoon with Jonathan Stewart,
broke through with three touchdowns Sunday to lead the Carolina
Panthers to a 34-0 win over the Kansas City Chiefs.

Williams scored on runs of 10 and 32 yards and also took a short
pass 25 yards for a score - his first touchdowns of the season.
He finished with 148 total yards, including 123 yards.

"What happens in football, offensively, is we try to establish
the run," Fox said. "We made no bones about it. Sometimes the
pass has to set up the run. We feel good about all of our
running backs. I think the run game is a patient situation,
where you just have to be patient with it. I think those guys
have done a terrific job all year and I think it paid off
today."

While Williams sparked the offense, the entire Carolina defense
came up with a big effort. Facing their fifth straight star
running back, the Panthers held Larry Johnson - who rushed for
198 yards last week - to just two yards on seven carries.

"That is something we thrive on," Panthers safety Chris Harris
said of facing the league's top backs. "We love the challenge
anytime we got the chance. We have had five straight. We thrive
on that. That makes us better. We don't want to be that team
that gave up 150 or 200 yards to a running back. It's
motivation."

Carolina has now faced LaDainian Tomlinson, Matt Forte, Adrian
Peterson, Michael Turner and now Johnson -four of the top six
backs in rushing entering play Sunday - and have yet to allow a
100-yard rushing game.

The Panthers defense held the Chiefs (1-4) to just one first
down and 28 net yards in the opening 30 minutes.

"They've been playing pretty good all year," said Fox of his
defense. "I think we have an unusually good group of guys on
that side of the ball in my opinion. They work very hard. They
like playing together. I think they continue to get better and
have a little more swagger each week.

"It doesn't matter who you're playing, to get a shutout in this
league is very difficult."

On the Chiefs' first possession, the Panthers pushed them back
15 yards and forced a punt from Kansas City's own end zone.

Carolina (4-1) then went on a seven-play drive, culminated by
back-to-back 10-yard rushes by Williams and a 7-0 lead.

Williams added two more first-half scores, and only a fumble
deep in Kansas City territory by Jonathan Stewart kept Carolina
from scoring on four straight possessions.

It was more of the same in the second half, as the Panthers came
up with a fumble and two interceptions. They also held on
4th-and-inches late in the game to preserve the shutout, the
first time the Chiefs have been held scoreless since December
2002.

"We should have played better," Kansas City coach Herm Edwards
said. "We played well last week and then this week we played
like this. Same players. Same coaches making the calls on the
offenses and defenses.

"I don't know. It's puzzling and we've got to figure it out. I
can't tell you exactly what happened because I haven't watched
the tape. But it wasn't very good. It wasn't very good at all."

Overall, Carolina limited Kansas City to 127 yards of total
offense, 50 of which came in the final period.

Kansas City's Tony Gonzalez became the all-time leader in
receiving yards by a tight end when he caught a six-yard pass
late in the first quarter. Gonzalez finished with three catches
for 17 yards and now has 10,075 yards receiving in his career.

"It's bittersweet. I'm happy for it, don't get me wrong,"
Gonzalez said of the record. "It took a long time to get that
and I have been fortunate to be around some good offensive
coordinators. Great quarterbacks, too. It's been a long time.
I'm very fortunate to have lasted that long.

"I'm going to take it in stride. I just wish it could have come
in a different circumstance. It would have been a lot better."

Gonzalez broke the record of 10,060 previously held by Shannon
Sharpe.